What's up with the BBC's weather forecasts on their website? Can they not even look out of the window and see what it's like out there? The forecast for my city is given for five days or you have the option of clicking for the 24-hour forecast. The latter is divided into three-hour periods starting at the nearest time to the present which is divisible by three - thus 3.0 am, 6.0 am, 9.0 am and so on. It predicted for 6.0 pm this evening that it would be clear with a temperature of 3 degrees. I looked out of my window at the appointed time to see that quite heavy SNOW was falling and the temperature was 1.5 degrees. Now in Bristol it is almost unheard of for there to be snow before Christmas. It happens very occasionally but not often. So one can forgive the meteorologists for getting it wrong - once. But - time after time I look out of the window to discover that what the weather is doing is nothing like that which was forecast. Perhaps the boffins should get rid of their fancy instruments and go back to watching the cows in the fields and consulting the seaweed.
Medical Bulletin
Woe is me . . . my reliable old Sony tuner/amplifier in my hi-fi is seriously ill. The right hand channel has gone all crackly. I thought it was the speaker - so I swapped them round to test this theory and lo and behold - the right hand channel was still crackling. Oh dear, I fear it is seriously ill. It could even be terminal. What ever happened to Sony's reputation for reliability? After all, it's only 24 years old.
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